Making it Merry!

by Debbie Carini Everyone thinks Santa’s job is close-to-impossible; all those houses, chimneys and cookies in just one night. It’s a globe-trotting and gastronomic feat and he deserves the veneration we accord him (carols, lighted plastic look-alikes,...

Readers comments 12-12-14

[Editor’s note: We had a speech in 1933, then another in 2014. But somewhere between, things got muddy. It was a misquote, then an incorrect correction to the misquote and now some correct corrections to the double misquote. Let me simplify it by saying,...

Police blotter 12-12-14

Monday, December 1 A popular Claremont hotel was the victim of intended arson. According to Lieutenant Mike Ciszek, the unknown suspect attempted to set fire to the vacant portion of the DoubleTree Hotel by pushing nearly a dozen pieces of newspaper through two,...

John Frampton

Loving husband, father and friend John Philip Frampton died peacefully at the age of 90, on December 3, 2014, with his family by his side.  John was born June 8, 1924 in Inglewood, California to Charlie and Grace Frampton, and spent his childhood in Pomona with...

CPUC gets earful from irate Claremont customers

Two public California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) hearings at Taylor Hall were well attended, as a long line of Claremont residents and Golden State ratepayers vented their opinions in an attempt to halt the water company’s effort for another rate increase....